Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
True. I try to look at both sides of an issue that is being reported and see what lies around, if anything, that remains untouched by unnecessary stretching and pulling.
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50 FOX News Lies in Six Seconds...
- Thread starter Sunstone
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True. I try to look at both sides of an issue that is being reported and see what lies around, if anything, that remains untouched by unnecessary stretching and pulling.
Ingledsva
HEATHEN ALASKAN
Wasn't there a study a few years ago that came to the conclusion that Fox News watchers, in general, had lower IQ's, and thus were more easily led to believed the constant barrage of one liner misinformation?
Does anyone have information on that?
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Ingledsva
HEATHEN ALASKAN
Interesting.
But it does give a hint as to where some of the data may have came from.
"The press release includes no links to the actual study (or even an abstract of it), just a "more information" link that points to a six-month old news article about a different study conducted by a different group which had a vaguely similar but distinctly different focus (i.e., that "people who only watch Fox News are less informed than all other news consumers").
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The BBC is a pretty stand-up source for news.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
BBC easily covers American news better than most American news sources. Which is pretty bad.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
When I was at another message-board website several years ago, someone posted three different studies and provided links that showed what you're saying, and one of them that I did check on (I didn't check on the other two) found that those who get most of their news from Fox actually know less real news than those who do not watch any t.v. news at all. Even those who watched MSNBC scored higher on news awareness than those who mostly watch Fox, and the comparison wasn't even close.
You might be able to Google it to get access to these studies.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
It may be the same study, or different, but studies have shown those whose primary source of news was the Daily Show and Colbert Report knew more about the news than those whose primary source is Fox. Which is really bad when watching 2 half-hour news shows four times a week, with each show covering about 5 topics a night (counting whatever is being promoted by the guest, usually a new book), for about 20 news items a week gives you more knowledge about whats going on out there in the world than what a 24/7 cables news network does. Fox, on the other hand, has five or so regular people on for a regular weekly TV schedule with hour long segments, and they get out-news by a couple of comedians.
Let's now consider this scholarly study of Obama voters' level of knowledge....
I like the people who have the courage & candor to say "I don't know.".
I like the people who have the courage & candor to say "I don't know.".
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Oh, I have saying "I don't know" down to an art form just in case you haven't noticed. Matter of fact, my favorite adage is from Confucius: the more you know, the more you know you really don't know.